I'll take it.

No probs. Can you message me your address?

The talk about Horsfall just isn't going away https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... QbspQDW2Ik Thoughts?

The talk about Horsfall just isn't going away https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... QbspQDW2Ik Thoughts?

I don't see any long-term merit in moving to a ground with a 5k capacity. If we managed to shake off our addiction to financial meltdowns we'd outgrow it almost instantly.

That's a pretty big 'if'....

Wasn't there something about Bradford PA hoping to get some FA funding to do the place up though?

The 30 year lease apparently gives them the security to contemplate increasing the capacity from 3500 to 5000. I can't see them wanting to make it bigger still even with FA money. The core tenant just doesn't require it

Avenue did have aspirations though.

They were wanting to reach the football league not long back but I'm far from sure Horsfall would satisfy the requirements, to be honest, at least not without a fair bit spending on it. Even if they did, there are the on-going problems with off-road car parking and little chance of any on-site.

Given the constraints of their ground and its surroundings, what they probably need is to ground share in some sort of, shall we say, "boutique" stadium. I have no idea if there's anyone planning such a thing though.

If only there was a recently vacated council owned site that was at a perfect location near by the motorway and transport links that would support such a site

You'll never find anywhere like that. If you did we would have to change our names to Bradford Unicorns and have a rainbow strip.

Sitting down right now, with pencil paper and a fair wodge of cash?

Far too much to expect - even "boutique" stadia cost at least a full arm and the best part of a leg.

The redevelopment plans that Gareth Roberts showed me include a new 160 space carpark at the Park Road end of the ground.

Obviously, Park Road would be accessible via Huddersfield Road and Common Road.

That would help to alleviate some of the pressure on Halifax and Cemetery Road.

There is some room round that end of the ground though by room, I mean 'not built on', much of it is part of the athletics 'field' events area. I got the impression from the T&A reports that Avenue, or Mr Roberts, seemed to be talking as though the athletics track might go at some point, though I've no idea if that is actually going to happen.

Logically, Horsfall needs to be developed purely as a small athletics stadium, for county level events. I don't know if Bradford has something like that already.
Then BPA, Bulls and the council (maybe with some FA, RFL, sport England funding) need to build & share a moderately sized community sports stadium.